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Proverbs 28:21-23
Common English Bible
Proverbs 28:21-23
Common English Bible
21 Those who show favoritism aren’t good;
people do wrong for a crust of bread.
22 The stingy try to get rich fast,
unaware that loss will come to them.
23 Those who correct someone will, in the end, find more favor
than those with flattering tongues.
Proverbs 28:21-23
New International Version
Proverbs 28:21-23
New International Version
Proverbs 28:21-23
English Standard Version
Proverbs 28:21-23
English Standard Version
21 To show (A)partiality is not good,
but for (B)a piece of bread a man will do wrong.
22 A (C)stingy man[a] (D)hastens after wealth
and does not know that (E)poverty will come upon him.
23 Whoever (F)rebukes a man will afterward find more favor
than (G)he who flatters with his tongue.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 28:22 Hebrew A man whose eye is evil
Proverbs 28:21-23
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
Proverbs 28:21-23
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
21 To have respect of persons and to show partiality is not good, neither is it good that man should transgress for a piece of bread.
22 He who has an evil and covetous eye hastens to be rich and knows not that want will come upon him.(A)
23 He who rebukes a man shall afterward find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue.
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Proverbs 28:21-23
King James Version
Proverbs 28:21-23
King James Version
21 To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
22 He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
23 He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
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